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CVE-2007-5201
The FTP backend for Duplicity before 0.4.9 sends the password as a command line argument when calling ncftp, which might allow local users…
Medium4.6EPSS 0.37%
- Published
- Updated
- Reserved
- Assigned by
- mitre
Description
The FTP backend for Duplicity before 0.4.9 sends the password as a command line argument when calling ncftp, which might allow local users to read the password by listing the process and its arguments.
Timeline
ID reserved
By mitre
Published
- 17 years later
· 17 years later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 2.0 | Medium4.6 | AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 0.37% · top 68% of all CVEs (8 Nov 2026)
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 4.6.
Weakness
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
Affected packages
From reviewed advisories of the GitHub Advisory Database.
- PyPIduplicityGHSA-wxcw-rqxc-hj85 (opens in a new tab)
References (8)
- http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=442840 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- 27771 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
- FEDORA-2008-1521 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_FEDORAx_transferred
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=293081 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- 28917 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- http://duplicity.nongnu.org/CHANGELOG (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- 42339 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_OSVDBx_transferred
- FEDORA-2008-1584 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_FEDORAx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisory GHSA-wxcw-rqxc-hj85 (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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